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The inventor of the Renaissance
The year 1550 was one of the most significant in the history of art. Not because of the appearance of any great work of painting or sculpture but because of a book. Giorgio Vasari’s Le Vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (Lives of …